Eric Gunnerson's Compendium
Monkey Gallery
Jill Greenberg has turned her talents towards monkeys. from Boing Boing BTW, "Monkey Gallery" is a...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 08/20/2004
Best "Improve Your Dev Skills" books...
I've been looking through a few of my "Improve your Dev Skills" books: Refactoring The Pragmatic...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 08/20/2004
Practice your parking
https://www.ebaumsworld.com/pparkgame.html 1:26
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 08/19/2004
Descriptions for my current state...
So, I'm in a weird state at work right now. I'm not really here at my old job - I can't start...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 08/18/2004
Miss manners will help you now...
Etiquette Hell
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 08/18/2004
Job opportunities in the C# team...
The following is paid commercial advertisement... **** Gus wrote about the open jobs on the C# team....
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 08/18/2004
Be a language designer redux...
Thanks for all the responses to the question that I posed. The reason I posed it is that I've been...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 08/17/2004
List or EmployeeList?
In current versions of C#, to get a strongly-typed collection, you need to define a separate type...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 08/17/2004
Wahoo
Yesterday afternoon, I drove my daughter over to eastern Washington, 20 miles from the nearest town...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 08/16/2004
Be a language designer...
I started writing a normal blog post - well, as normal as any blog post of mine ever is - and then I...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 08/16/2004
Zoo Hill
I wimped out on my ride yesterday morning (it's hot and hard to sleep), so this morning I decided to...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 08/14/2004
Any COM interop experts out there?
I've been spending some time trying to get Windows Media Player to work in a remoted mode from C#....
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 08/13/2004
Conditional Attributes
There's an extension to the conditional concept that shows up in Whidbey. It's not in Beta1 (well,...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 08/13/2004
Conditional Methods
I saw an internal post today about somebody who wanted to get rid of their #if DEBUG statements in...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 08/13/2004
Missing comments and blog problems...
Our blog software got upgraded a few days ago, and that upgrade include comment moderation, as an...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 08/13/2004
New Challenges
From C# Builder to C# User... Dateline: Redmond, Building 41 Eric Gunnerson called me early this...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 08/12/2004
Arrays inside of structures
Sometimes when doing interop, you want to have an array embedded inside of a struct. For example,...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 08/12/2004
An answer, and a link.
Rachel posted this excellent link that answered my question. Thanks. And Wim posted a site that is...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 08/10/2004
Wish you were here...
“Wish you were here” has always been one of my favorite Pink Floyd songs, but as I...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 08/10/2004
"It's only a model"
I mentioned that I bought my wife a trebuchet. Here's a picture of it. And where does one go to buy...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 08/10/2004
Special birthday presents for her...
(Kim, make sure you don't read this, as it will ruin the surprise) My wife's birthday is coming up...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 08/09/2004
Nested Using Statements
I got a comment on the language feature post, asking about an easier way to write: using...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 08/05/2004
3 days and counting...
Friday morning at 6:00 AM (!) I leave on my ride to Vancouver, BC. I'll ride about 109 miles on...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 08/03/2004
BikeWriter
Whatever your political leanings, you have to love this application of technology...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 08/03/2004
Test Junk Post
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Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 08/02/2004
Interview with Alfred's Mother...
Interview
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 08/02/2004
TechEd Whiteboard with Anders
At TechEd 2004, Anders did a whiteboard talk. Recommended. (From Dan)
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 07/30/2004
C# 3.0? You haven't even shipped 2.0 yet?
One of my readers commented (and I'm paraphrasing here): Why are you asking me about features for...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 07/30/2004
Memories of Youth
I remember the hot summer days of my youth. Our backyard patio had ants. I had a 5” magnifying...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 07/30/2004
using - It's not just for memory management
When we designed the using statement waaaay back in the first version of C#, we decided to call it...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 07/28/2004
Anders Hejlsberg - Programming data in C# 3.0 #
Dan pointed me to a new video on Channel9 about some of the things we're talking about for C# 3.0
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 07/28/2004
Stevens Pass Summit Lakes (Grace Lake)
Last Sunday, we went on a short hike to the summit lakes at Stevens Pass Ski Area. It was the first...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 07/28/2004
JetBrains ReSharper 1.0 now available
JetBrains (of IntelliJ fame) has shipped V1.0 of ReSharper
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 07/27/2004
Not sure what to make of this...
Go https://www.ilovebees.com/. Wait for it. then, perhaps go here and here. I really don't know what...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 07/27/2004
What have Microsoft blogs meant to you?
I'm doing a few slides on blogging for a meeting that the C# team is having this Friday, and I need...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 07/27/2004
Managed Minidumps
Scott talks about Managed Minidumps It's a debugging thing...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 07/27/2004
Answer: What is the lifetime of local instances?
Answer to this poser I wasn't sure the answer to this question was observable, so I wrote a short...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 07/23/2004
Poser: What is the lifetime of local instances?
A reader wote me to ask a question about variable lifetimes. Consider the following code:class...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 07/23/2004
Why language features die, and language extensibility
Rick Byers wrote (some time ago): Thanks for the awesome post Eric. I'd be interested in hearing...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 07/22/2004
Future language features & scenarios
We're starting to think about the release after Whidbey in the C# compiler team. I know that it...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 07/20/2004
Rescheduled C# Chat on TechEd topics
Our original chat got cancelled (don't ask...), and we've rescheduled it for this Thursday
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 07/20/2004
Killing comment spam
Is there a .TEXT utility to let me kill all comments that have a specific URL in them? I've been...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 07/18/2004
Why a manned space program?
One of the questions about in the comments to my post on Apollo question asked “Why do we have...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 07/16/2004
35 years ago today...
35 years ago, two men came within 20 seconds of dying 250,000 miles away. Hours after averting...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 07/16/2004
Naming generic type parameters...
There's been quite a discussion going on on the MSDN feedback site over the naming of generic type...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 07/16/2004
Alfred is worried...
Those of you who read my holiday letter post from last year may remember that Alfred is my Roomba....
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 07/13/2004
Google is my personal search engine
Google gives high weight to blogs. In fact, google gives too much weight to blogs. Too often I've...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 07/13/2004
Fixed statement and null input...
I'd like some input on a change we're considering for Whidbey. Consider the following wrapper...
Author: Eric Gunnerson Date: 07/13/2004